The Moscow regional court has decided to hear the case of the attack at Domodedovo airport in private, according to an August 20th report in Interfax. The case proceedings will begin August 27th. According to the ITAR-TASS news agency, the court has decided to keep the preliminary hearings closed. The reasons for this decision were not reported.

A suicide bombing on January 24th, 2011 killed 37 people and injured more than 160. Investigation into the crime was completed on July 10th, 2012.

According to investigators, the immediate perpetrator of the terrorist attack was 20-year-old Magomed Yevloyev. Doku Umarov, militant leader in the North Caucasus, assumed responsibility.

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Three days of mourning were declared in Ingushetia after the August 19th terrorist attack on a police funeral in Malgobek. The blast killed seven officers from the republic’s Interior Ministry, and injured another 15.

At about 10:40 pm on August 18th, on Oskanova Street in the city of Malgobek, unknown persons opened fire on Interior Ministry police precinct officer Ilez Korigov. A 14-year-old girl, who was passing by, was also injured in the attack. Both victims were taken to the hospital.

The wounded policeman died during surgery on the morning of August 19th. 14-year-old Zalina Arsanova, however, was transferred to the general ward, as doctors found her wounds not life threatening.

Later that day in the village of Sagopshi, in the Malgobek district, a blast rang out at the officer's funeral. A bomb had been planted near the house hosting a farewell ceremony for the officer.

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On August 19th, a suicide bomber attacked the funeral of a police officer killed by gunfire the previous day. The blast killed seven and injured another 11. All of the dead were employees of the Interior Ministry, while the wounded were civilians who found themselves near the blast.

On the evening of August 18th, two masked men entered a Shiite mosque in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt and opened fire on the congregation. Eight people were hospitalized, two of them in intensive care. Later, one of two bombs planted in the mosque went off. A second bomb was successfully deactivated.

On August 9th, unidentified persons fired at police in the Botlikh region of Dagestan, killing three officers and wounding one. According to the press service of the Interior Ministry, bandits fired on police from a forested area after police went there to check information on armed men in the vicinity of the village.

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In a month it will end up in Moscow City Court

Kommersant found out that the FSB has completed its investigation into the celebrated criminal case — the attempt during the summer of 2011 to derail the Peregrine Falcon passenger express on its route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The four young men accused of the crime immediately plead guilty, and for the duration of the investigation have been trying to reach some kind of a pre-trial deal. However, a counter-proposal by the investigators — to mitigate their punishment if they confess to being ideological militants and members of the banned Caucasus Emirate terrorist organization — does not suit them.

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